Tomorrow we will join Vice President Maroš Šefčovič and other cleantech leaders in Brussels to discuss how EU best can support us as cleantech entrepreneurs. It will be live-streamed through LinkedIn, tune in tomorrow at 16:30 CET and share your ideas here:

The Swedish bank “Handelsbanken” has published an interview with Epishine’s CEO, Mattias Josephson, in their printed private banking magazine “Conversations” where he states that he believes in a better world, that Epishine’s fully organic solar cells are unique, that it’s important to be passionated about what you do, that he is looking forward to when Epishine’s first large-scale factory for production of organic solar cells is up and running and that its an advantage to be an idealist if you don’t want to go with the big stream.

Right now you can read about a break through in OPV manufacturing by Linköping University in the science press, comercialized by Epishine.

The breakthrough constitutes the basis for our patent-pending solution to manufacture fully organic solar cells in a high-speed roll-to-roll process where two plastic films, covered by the active material, is laminated together. Since only two to three layers are to be printed, the number of defects is lower and the probability that two defects are located exactly opposite each other during the lamination is negligible.

We’re very proud of our latest physical demo of Indoor Energy Harvesting. We’ve designed a temperature meter with a sensor and an LCD-display powered only with one of our Indoor Energy Harvesting Modules.

The purpose with the demo is to show that our plastic pieces are able to harvest normal low-energy lighting, replacing the batteries in sensors etc.

As you might see we still manufacture some parts by hand – which results in some small “wrinkles” in the module. Soon we will start full industrial manufacturing of the modules.

Epishine was celebrated at a regional “Award Winning Lunch” for companies in East Sweden. We were acclaimed for the following achievements:

A listing in “33-listan”

“33-listan” is a yearly list with Sweden’s 33 most promising young tech companies facilitated by the newspapers NyTeknik (New Tech) and Affärsvärlden (Business World).

Di Digital Startup Tour

Epishine became regional winners of Di Digital Startup Tour. The company is now proceeding to the finals in Stockholm on 7 December together with the winners in the 4 other regions of Sweden. (Di Digital is part of is the Swedish financial newspaper Dagens Industri.)

Swedbank rivstart

One of the main banks in Sweden, Swedbank, searched for ideas with both business potential and ability to create a positive change. They received 4321 ideas. Epishine was one of the 10 winners.

Best B2B Collaborator in Ignite Sweden

Epishine was honored as winner of “Best B2B Collaborator” at the Ignite Sweden Day for the collaboration started with Verisure.

The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv), Sweden’s largest and most influential business federation has a magazine about initiatives solving environmental problems (Miljönytta). Read their article about Epishine:

Epishine was honored as winner of “Best B2B Collaborator” at the Ignite Sweden Day for the collaboration started together with Verisure.

Motivation: With strong engagement and top notch technical solution, Epishine has proven it is possible to partner up with corporates, despite differences in size, finances and culture. Through their participation in Ignite Sweden, they have entered into new partnerships; a key factor in keeping both startups and corporates in the international forefront.